Drained. Burned out. Life had just exceeded my ability to maintain cohesion with the space/time continuum. I had reached a point of physical and emotional depletion. Something dramatic needed to be done. So I elected to perform a positively hedonistic maneuver: I decided to stop everything and Do Nothing. As in do nothing that I should do. The intent was to just do plenty of “nothing” that I, selfishly, wanted to do. Right now. Not next month, next summer. Now, today. And it’s a thing. In Italian, the concept is dolce far niente --- the sweet doing nothing.

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